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how long do you predict i7's to last until they start to struggle.

garyfl

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i got a 950, just wanted to know how long you reckon my rig will last with all your knowledge of current software and what it utilizes and upcoming software and what it requires.

lets say in 2 years time if i bought a top end graphics card for that time would my cpu bottleneck it. ;)
 
Big.Wayne said:
For some e-Slongers I predict their LGA1366 Intel® Core™ i7 systems will begin "struggling" within a week of Intel® Sandybridge launching! :p
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What do you mean? The i7 cpus have been "struggling" ever since Sandybridge was announced! :p

On a more serious note, I'm guessing 2-3 years but no one will know for sure.
 
The E6600 still holds its own well in most cases, very hard to make it struggle even now unless you have a high end multi GPU gaming rig or do encoding/number crunching of some kind thats very multi-threaded and CPU intensive. But something could change just around the corner that could make even the best i7 rig weep.
 
4-5 years its all about GPU nowadays a fast Core i7 helps especially with SLI/Crossfire & certain games being optimized to use all CPU cores (GTA4, All recent Capcom games).
 
Ive had my i7 for just over a year now, think ill hold onto it for another couple of years, just upgrade the gpu/s when i feel that theyre struggling.
 
I'd say i7's would last at least for a few years if not 1 or 2 more, its not exactly a slouch lol. Its an amazing overclocker and exceptional performance.
 
I'm about to buy a new 500MHz geode with 256mb of ram. It'll play crisis worse than almost anything. Alternatively todays i7's can't hold a candle to a render farm, when rendering. Whether a processor is struggling or not depends entirely on what software you're running.

Alternatively, it depends on how badly Microsoft **** up their next few operating systems. I'm sure we all know people who bought new computers so they'd be able to run vista.
 
Games-wise, I reckon it'll take more than 8 parallel threads to put a hurting on an i7. When will that happen... I dunno.
 
Depends how long you decide to keep it and not get tempted to move over to another cpu.
 
My E7500 @ 4ghz is still barely being taxed by anything I play. I'm still upgrading when I have a bit of spare cash to an i5 750, but I'm sure that could easily stay in my system for 4-5 years and be fine after that :)

I was on a socket 939 3500+ for about 5 years, and it still ran Crysis with a 7900GT on medium settings :)
 
4 years - what game is possibly going to make use of cpus even more?? (and the same for gpus for that matter) , we need a console refresh before any hardware gets pushed now.
 
Without turning this into a fanboy thread where people get angry with each other, Why is the same not being asked about the AMD hex cores, which have been said to equal I7 in most threads.

Do you feel the same for these? Will they last the same period?
 
I was running on a Single core Pentium 4 from early 00s till march this year... ran fine with up to date games on medium/low in a very shoddy build. and worked at a very good speed for regular desktop use aswell.

Somehow I think the new i7's will last just as long if looked after :)
 
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